Australian Energy Market Operator

AEMO operates Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM), the interconnected power system in Australia’s eastern and south-eastern seaboard, and the Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and power system in Western Australia.

AEMO operates gas retail markets in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia. AEMO also operates wholesale gas markets in south-eastern Australia, those being the Declared Wholesale Gas Market in Victoria (DWGM), the Short Term Trading Market in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney (STTM), and the Gas Supply Hub (GSH), whose trading locations are based at Wallumbilla in Queensland, and Moomba in South Australia. AEMO also operates the Natural Gas Services Bulletin Board (GBB), and is system operator of the Victorian Gas Declared Transmission System. AEMO is also responsible for Gas Services Information functions in Western Australia.

IN031/11 Fast Track Process for release of gas enumerations

This consultation proposes changes to the Procedures and technical Protocols for Vic, Qld, SA and NSW/ACT and will result in (i) a uniform industry approach to address attribute changes across Gas markets that utilise aseXML; (ii) harmonised process approach across all AEMO gas retail markets to allow data to be configurable and updated in a more timely and efficient manner; and (iii) removal of the requirement run a procedure consultation for a minor technical change. AEMO has published a notice to participants of AEMO's decision on the amendments noted above that take effect on, 16 November 2016.